John Denver Quotes

Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.

So many things I long for have so often been denied

My faith will proclaim it is so - we are never alone.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

Love is why I came here in the first place.

Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

Thank you for this precious day,
These gifts you give to me,
My heart so full of love for you,
Sings praise for all I see,
Oh, sing, for every mother's love,
For every childhood tear,
Oh, sing, for all the stars above,
The peace beyond all fear

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other.

I believe we are here for each other, not against each other

Music does bring people together.
It allows us to experience the same emotions

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are ...

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything ... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

You Fill Up My Senses

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay"
"Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.